Stores with reduced capacity could mean a 40minute wait. The National Retail federation on its website predicts online sales will be capturing 20 to 30 of the holiday market, up from last year. There are no corporate parties and reduced inventory and fewer employees are in many stores according to consumer expert and San Francisco State University marketing professor. The projections are that because the consumer demand has been suppressed so far, starting with today, which is black friday and the start of the Holiday Shopping season, there is some kind of penalty up demand that people, you know, they want to give gifts to family and friends to uplift their spirits in a very challenging year. Reporter walnut creek downtown there is a 20 vacancy rate right now but Property Owners say they are getting inquiries about renting the vacant sites according to the walnut creek Downtown Business association. Whats missing is probably, you know, the ice rink. Were unable to host the ice rink thi
Well. Lets dive deeper into the action with all of our markets reporters. Abigail, get us started. Movesl with such small for stocks, i want to highlight a chart from last weight. It is smallcap. Smallcap does very well in december. This chart makes a compelling case for small caps to do well in december. What we are looking at is a decadelong chart of iw m, the smallcap etf on top. We have iw m relative to the s p 500 on the bottom showing smallcap has been on performing over the last decade. See these bottoming areas. That is when smallcap has started to outperform. Frank appel larry is very bullish on the fact that smallcap is not only broken above the 1600 level, but it does appear we could be in a position of time outperformance relative to smallcap. I am going to combine bonds and technology and see if we can do both in 30 seconds. Twitter is issuing their first junk bonds, about 600 million. On eightyear notes, three and three coders. They are getting dashed three and three quar
[inaudible conversations] welcome to the 24th annual texas book festival. I name is katie vine. We are here today to talk to amaryllis box author of the new book life undercover. Encourage everyone to pick up a copy of this. She is going to be signing copies. I will give a quick introduction and then i will ask a few questions in leave the last ten to 15 minutes for audience questions. Please silence your cell phones before we start. Even before she finished studying in oxford before september 11 before her writing mentor was captured in killed they have already invested in International Affairs having taken a great risk when she was just a year out of high school. She eventually got a masters in conflict. She developed an algorithm that could predict terrorist attacks based on 200 years of data. At age 21 she was recruited to the cia where she analyzed classified information. Soon afterwards she was selected for advanced operations and training in the middle east and asia. Its not a h
Cia. Wonderful book and i encourage everyone to pick one up after the panel. Shes going to be signing copies for people. Im going to give a quick introduction and then im going to ask a few questions and leave the last 10 or 15 minutes for audience questions. We have a microphone set up right here in the front and another one in the back. Please silence your cell phones before we start so we dont have any surprises. Even before shehe finished studying at oxford before 9 11, before her writing mentor was captured and killed amaryllis fox was invested in International Affairs having taken great risk, message out of burma when she was a year out of high school. She eventually got her masters in conflict and terrorism at georgetowns look toward service where she developed an algorithm that were terrorist attacks based on 200 years of data. Age 20 when she was recruited to the cia for seattle is classified for the federal government. She went through advanced operational working undercover
Exclusively at the company thats got the target on its back. Its a fox business exclusive you are going to see whats inside this company. And mysterious deaths at an island paradise have tourists thinking twice or even backing out of booking a visit to the Dominican Republic. Weve got the ceo of one of the worlds Biggest Hotel chains here to tell us how his company is dealing with the Public Relations and security nightmare. On wall street, energy and health care pushing the market slightly higher as we await the big Federal Reserve Rate Decision on wednesday that charles mentioned. Dow jones industrials up 26 points. S p better by four. The nasdaq up 54. Less than an hour to the closing bell on this monday. So glad youre with us. Lets start the countdown. Liz breaking news. Reuters now reporting that Deutsche Bank is planning to restructure its entire u. S. Equities business, leaving only a skeleton operation in place. We knew over the weekend that they were going to make big changes